Economic potential of robots for high value crops and landscape treatment

Precision Agriculture 2007 - Papers Presented at the 6th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, ECPA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 457-464

  Pedersen, S M ^a   Fountas, S ^b   Blackmore, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural robots; Economic feasibility; Technology assessment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOT; AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLES; BEHAVIOURAL APPROACH; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; ECONOMIC FEASIBILITIES; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS;

CROPS;

EID: 84893189049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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